Two French Journalists Slain in North Mali

Two veteran French journalists were abducted and killed in Mali on Saturday while reporting in the region, according to the French government and Radio France Internationale, the state-funded radio station that employed them.

Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were reporting in Kidal, a northern desert city that has remained a stronghold of separatists and insurgents despite a French-led military intervention aimed at restoring...